Word: rectangularity
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...stone an annual gift of the senior class to the university, will this year portray the university emblem on a rectangular blocks of limestone. An athlete throwing a discus will be superimposed on the center of the emblem...
...under museum conditions, the essential monumentality of Smith's vision remains. Even the biggest pieces, like the disquieting Wagon I (a "personage" consisting of a rectangular helm set on a swollen belly made of two tank ends welded together, all balancing on a huge forged chassis), suggest a sense of the figure and accordingly evoke responses from one's own body. They convey forceful impressions of posture, gesture and attitude. Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls, and it may be, as various critics have pointed out, that the usual verticality of his sculptures...
...showdown at last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna was taut and grim. At one of the long rectangular tables sat Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the elegantly groomed Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. At another, roughhewn and tieless, was Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi of Iran. The issue before them was the control of OPEC itself. The result: a draw that deepened the most severe crisis in OPEC'S 22-year history and raised doubts about whether the organization can ever function as an effective cartel...
...political stability has promoted an unprecedented period of prosperity. Unemployment is low; the economy, based on agriculture, mining and tourism, is growing at an annual rate of about 10%. More than half the population lives today in cities, including the Bedouin sheiks, who have largely abandoned their black rectangular tents in favor of lavish urban villas...
...Treasury, Shultz has always been leery of the use of economic sanctions. He personally doubted that the embargo would be effective, but nonetheless has acted as a team player. He began by holding a number of wide-ranging discussions with a brain trust of advisers around his small, rectangular conference table. Said one official present: "He Likes to ask what are the fundamental points at stake, to go back to Square 1. Once satisfied with the basics, he will move on to options and then to details...